WOONG-HEE LEE (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, in 2017. From 2017 to 2019, he was an Experienced Researcher with the Advanced Standard Research and Development Laboratories, LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea. From 2019 to 2020, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Department of Communication Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. From 2020 to 2021, he was an Experienced Researcher with Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden. From 2021 to 2024, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Control and Instrumentation Engineering, Korea University, Sejong-si, Republic of Korea. Since March 2024, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Division of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. His research interests include signal processing, machine learning, and game theory in wireless communications.
Education
Seoul National University (Advisor: Prof. Seong-Cheol Kim)
Ph. D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Radio Technology Laboratory)
Distinguished Dissertation (Title: Game Theoretical Approaches for Wireless Networks), SNU ECE, 2017
Distinguished Ph.D. Candidate Award, SNU ECE, 2016
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Work Experience
[2024 - Now!] Dongguk University, Electronics and Electric Engineering, Assistant Professor
[2021 - 2024] Korea University - Sejong Campus, Electro-Mechanical Systems Engineering, Assistant Professor
[2020 - 2021] Ericsson Research, AI & IoT Lab., Experienced Researcher
[2019 - 2020] KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Radio Systems Lab., Postdoc. (Funding: European Horizon 2020 (PriMo-5G))
[2017 - 2019] LG Electronics CTO Division , Communication and Automotive Standard Lab. (Beyond 5G Task), Experienced Researcher
Award and Honor
KUS Challenger Award, Sep. 2022.
Distinguished Dissertation (Game Theoretical Approaches for Wireless Networks), Feb. 2017
Distinguished Ph.D. Candidate Award (Game Theoretical Approaches for Wireless Networks), Jan. 2017
Telecommunication Review 2014 Best Paper Award, Mar. 2015
Qualcomm Innovation Award (Decentralized Base Station Selection in Heterogeneous Networks), Jan. 2013
IEEE Student Paper Contest (Bronze Paper Award: Game-Theoretical Frequency and Time Resource Management for Relay Systems), Dec. 2011
Professional Activity
Invited Talk
6G 물리계측 핵심기술 및 관련 이슈 - 한국통신학회 ICT Convergence Korea, 2025
5G/6G 물리계층 기술 - 대한전자공학회 단기 계속 교육 강좌 (디지털 통신 및 최신 네트워크 기술), 2025
딥러닝 기반 물리계층 기술 - 대한전자공학회 단기 계속 교육 강좌 (디지털 통신 및 최신 네트워크 기술), 2024
Machine Learning for PHY: A Signal Processing Perspective - 한국통신학회 이동 및 무선통신 단기강좌, 2023
AI-assisted Signal Processing: On The Perspective of Classification/Separation/Reconstruction - 대한전자공학회 통신소사이어티 워크샵, 2022
What is the Role of AI in Wireless Communications? - 한국통신학회 튜토리얼 강연, 2021/2022
Geometric Sequence Decomposition with Extremely Sparse Sampling (Seoul National University, Yonsei University, and Chungbuk National University, South Korea, 2019)
학회 활동
통신소사이어티 운영위원 (대한전자공학회, 대한민국, 2022 ~ )
6G 이동통신기술 연구팀 (대한전자공학회, 대한민국, 2021)
Task Leader
Matrix Theory Based Wireless Localization (LG Electronics CTO Division, South Korea, 2018)
AI-assisted UAV-based Wireless Localization (Ericsson Research, Sweden, 2020)
Main Collaborators (Potential Co-advisors)
Seong-Cheol Kim (Professor @ Seoul National University, Woong-Hee's Advisor) and his current students
Jong-Ho Lee (Professor @ Soongsil University)
Jiho Song (Assistant Professor @ Hanyang University)
Jeongsik Choi (Assistant Professor @ Kyungpook National University)
Jae-Hyun Lee (Staff Engineer (6G Expert) @ SKT)
Changhoe Kim (Research Engineer (Data Scientist) @ NAVER)
Ki Won Sung (Docent @ KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Mustafa Ozger (Assistant Professor @ Aalborg University)
Ursula Challita (Senior Researcher @ Ericsson)